GOOGLE "REC" Initiative ======================= The Mountain View-based company initially hopes to harvest cleaner-burning electricity to meet its own needs and sell power to other users or license the technology that emerges from its initiative, dubbed "Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal,"or "REC." ......READ MORE >
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GOOGLE 1.6 MW SOLAR & HYBRID SOLAR CAR PARK
20 juin 2007 Google Powers Up 1.6 MW Solar System & Hybrid Initiative Google.org to fund more than $10 M to accelerate plug-in hybrid and vehicle-to-grid technology. by Meghan Murphy, Contributing Writer Mountain View, California
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"Clean energy technology can dramatically shift how we make and use energy for our cars and homes by charging cars through an electric grid powered by solar or other renewable energy sources, and selling power back to the electric grid when it's needed most. This approach can quadruple the fuel efficiency of cars on the road today and improve grid stability." -- Dr. Larry Brilliant, head of Google.org ________________________________________________ Update NOV 27 2007_____________________________ Google Inc. is expanding into alternative energy in its most ambitious effort yet to ease the environmental strain caused by the company's voracious appetite for power to run its massive computing centers. As part of a project announced Tuesday, the Internet search leader and its philanthropic arm will pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a quest to lower the cost of producing electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind and the sun. If Google realizes its goal, the cost of solar power should fall by 25 to 50 percent, co-founder Larry Page said in an interview. ......READ MORE >
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